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Watch Video | Listen to the AudioWILLIAM BRANGHAM: For President Trump today, it was the kickoff of his first United Nations General Assembly. As a candidate, he had roundly criticized the world body. Today, he spoke at a meeting on U.N. reform, and said the U.S. will work with Secretary-General António Guterres to make changes. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. While the United Nations on a regular budget has increased by 140 percent and its staff has more than doubled since 2000, we are not seeing the results in line with this investment, but I know that, under the secretary-general, that’s changing, and it’s changing fast. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The president also met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and talked again of trying for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Mr. Trump addresses the full General Assembly tomorrow. The president also spoke with Chinese leader Xi Jinping by phone about enforcing new sanctions on North Korea. This came as the North warned that new pressure will only increase its drive to develop more nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, in live drills, the U.S. military sent a pair of B-1B bombers and F-35 stealth fighters over South Korea. It was the second such flight in recent weeks. Hurricane Maria has closed in on the Eastern Caribbean tonight, threatening the very same islands wrecked by Hurricane Irma. By this evening, the storm was passing Martinique with winds of 130 miles an hour, making it a Category 4 storm and still growing. The Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are in the projected path tomorrow and Wednesday. There are new signs of recovery today in Florida, a week after Hurricane Irma swept the state. Schools in Miami-Dade and Broward County reopened for more than 600,000 students. Other systems, and some colleges, remain closed. In the hard-hit Florida Keys, Governor Rick Scott and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price warned today of potential dangers to those returning. TOM PRICE, Secretary of Health and Human Services: There’s mold challenges. There are the marine life that — and diseases that occur. So they need to take precautions, simple wearing of gloves, making certain that when they are moving debris that they are being cautious and that they are not inhabiting a place that is uninhabitable. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Utility crews have restored power to the great majority of those who lost it during the storm, but nearly 800,000 people remained in the dark today. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be downsized. It’s widely reported the sites are Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah. They cover more than three million acres, as well as two others in Nevada and Oregon. Zinke also recommended lifting curbs on logging and mining at several other sites. Environmentalists have condemned the proposal. President Trump has said designating these monuments amounted to a federal land grab. On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones industrial average gained 63 points to close at 22331. The Nasdaq rose six points, and the S&P 500 added three. And some history was made at the 69th annual Emmy Awards last night. “The Handmaid’s Tale, which was shown on Hulu, won for best drama series. It’s the first such award for a video streaming service. And Lena Waithe became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for best comedy-writing, for the show “Master of None. HBO’s political satire “Veep won best comedy, and “Saturday Night Live won nine awards, the most of the evening. The post News Wrap: UN hasn’t reached its full potential, says Trump appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
Today, Kristen Eicher reports about the cleanup and recovery efforts in St. Martin after Hurricane Irma ripped through the Caribbean. Plus: WORLD Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky talks with professor and author Carl Trueman about his new book on Martin Luther.
The Rhode Island-based avant-rock trio Arc Iris is touring this fall, featuring covers of songs from Joni Mitchell’s seminal 1971 album “Blue. As Amelia Mason (@shmabelia) from WBUR reports, the band’s new sound takes its cues from the source material — and from Mitchell herself. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioWILLIAM BRANGHAM: On Friday: Judy Woodruff sat down with Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate, to discuss her new book titled “What Happened. We return now to that interview, when Judy asked about Clinton’s campaign against Donald Trump and mistakes she might’ve made in certain key states. JUDY WOODRUFF: Do you think your campaign was negligent, or whatever word you want to use, in not raising enough warning signs about the perils that could lie ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan? Those states, of course, turned out to be crucial to the outcome. HILLARY CLINTON, Author, “What Happened: Well, when you’re in a campaign you — you look at the best information you have. And our best information from polling, from what’s called data analytics, from people on the ground didn’t indicate that we faced what eventually happened in Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania. We campaigned hard. We had more people on the ground working for my campaign than President Obama had had. We were in constant communication: What do you hear? What do you see? Wisconsin’s a particularly interesting example, because Russ Feingold, someone I served with, was running again for the Senate. His polling and the polling done by the Senate Democrats showed he was going to win. I ended up doing better than he did. There were all kinds of factors. And one of the biggest problems in Wisconsin has been the well-executed effort to suppress voters, African-American voters in Milwaukee, young voters, particularly in Madison and elsewhere. It proved to be very effective. And we campaigned hard in Pennsylvania. We campaigned hard in Michigan. I was there the day before the election. So, I — I just don’t believe that those were the determining factors about how many visits how many people made. I just don’t buy that. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Judy also asked Secretary Clinton about the criticism of her campaign from within her own party, specifically from former Vice President Joe Biden. JUDY WOODRUFF: You also had some comments about former Vice President Joe Biden. And I want to ask you about that, because he said after the election that he thought your campaign and Democrats in general didn’t adequately communicate to Americans who were economically strapped what Democrats were prepared to do for them. Isn’t that very similar, if not the same thing, your husband, President Clinton, was telling your campaign before the election? HILLARY CLINTON: No. And, look, I’m a friend of and a big admirer of Joe Biden. He and I have worked together. We served together. And I point out in the book, you know, every day, we were talking about jobs and the economy. Post-election analyses said I talked about jobs more than anything else and more than anybody else. We had really specific plans. I was talking about them endlessly. But they weren’t covered. When you get 32 minutes in a whole year to cover every issue, and 100 minutes on e-mails, I don’t fault voters for not knowing what we were saying. Joe campaigned for me. He talked about jobs. Everybody else talked about jobs and what we were intending to do. But, you know, it was — it turned out not to be enough in that particular environment. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And, finally, they turned to health care, which, if you remember, was one of the major sticking points during the Democratic primary contest. Judy asked Secretary Clinton about her former opponent Senator Bernie Sanders and his recent health care proposal. JUDY WOODRUFF: In the campaign, you, on a number of occasions, argued with Bernie Sanders, because he argued there should be more of a government-run health care system, rather than expanding Obamacare. Now he has this new plan out to expand Medicare, cover more people in the direction of single-payer. And dozens of Democrats are behind it. Are they making a mistake? HILLARY CLINTON: No. It’s an aspirational goal. I believe in universal health care coverage that is affordable and high-quality. There are a number of ways to get there. I think some are more likely than others. During the primary campaign, I did defend the Affordable Care Act, because, for the first time in our history, we had 90 percent of Americans covered. And as I said over and over again, it’s a lot easier to get from 90 to 100 percent than ripping it up and starting all over again. But as someone who’s worked on health care to try to get to universal coverage for 25 years, it matters how much it costs. It matters what people feel about giving up what they already have. And half of America gets health care from their employers. It matters what kind of standards are going to be expected in whatever benefits there are. You know, the devil is always in the details when it comes to universal health care coverage. So, I think having a debate about the best way we get there and having people really lay their cards on the table, so that it can be examined, is important. JUDY WOODRUFF: I ask because some Democrats are saying it is a mistake, that this takes the focus. It, in essence, cedes the fact that Obamacare hasn’t worked and that there needs to be another way. HILLARY CLINTON: Well, that would be unfortunate. And I — it would only — that would only be true if Democrats in large numbers in the House and Senate stopped working to make sure the Affordable Care Act continues. I think there still is a lot of energy behind that, because the likelihood of us getting — you know, getting to a single-payer system starting from where we are is — is quite difficult. So let’s not throw the baby out with the bath. Let’s stay focused on how we’re going to deliver the highest-quality, most affordable health care right now. And then you want to have a debate about something better and different, go ahead and have the debate. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: You can watch the entire interview with Secretary Clinton online at PBS.org/NewsHour. The post Hillary Clinton on losing in Wisconsin, getting universal health care appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioIn our NewsHour Shares series, we show you things that caught our eye recently on the web. What about you? Leave your suggestions in the comments below, or tweet to @NewsHour using #NewsHourShares. We might share it on air. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Finally, to our NewsHour Shares, something that caught our eye that might be of interest to you as well. Staying in shape is difficult for many people, no matter their age. But one Virginia grandmother is raising the bar, literally. The NewsHour’s Julia Griffin has this profile. LINDA LEIGHTLEY, Powerlifter: Commissioner of revenue’s office. JULIA GRIFFIN: Between the phone calls and family photos, you would be forgiven for thinking Linda Leightley is your average government employee easing toward retirement. But as her co-worker Becky McNaughton at City Hall in Fairfax, Virginia, knows, Leightley isn’t the type to take anything easy. BECKY MCNAUGHTON, Co-Worker: The first or second day I worked here, Linda came into my office, and she asked me to check out her butt. (LAUGHTER) BECKY MCNAUGHTON: Because it was very, very solid. And that is how I met her and found out she was a powerlifter. JULIA GRIFFIN: At age 72, not only is Leightley a competitive powerlifter; she’s a record- setting one at that. LINDA LEIGHTLEY: I have set several world records, which I’m really proud of. JULIA GRIFFIN: Leightley competes in 100% RAW, a worldwide powerlifting organization that emphasizes clean, steroid-free competitions. Since 2014, she’s garnered 12 world records in her age and weight categories; 132-pound Leightley can dead-lift 273 pounds. But she wasn’t always so in shape. In 2006, after years of shuttling three children and six grandchildren to their athletic activities, she finally got her own itch to work out. LINDA LEIGHTLEY: I was 60, and I was very sluggish. And I said, you know, I really need to do something for me. JULIA GRIFFIN: Blaine Dulin is Leightley’s personal trainer and coach. BLAINE DULIN, Personal Trainer: She was a disaster when I got her. The first time we exercised, she almost fell over doing a lunge. JULIA GRIFFIN: But Leightley stuck with it, and within a year, she lost 40 pounds and found a love for weight lifting along the way. LINDA LEIGHTLEY: Every once in awhile, he’d say, well, do you want to stay here or do you want to lift higher? And I would say, I want to lift higher, because it felt so good. JULIA GRIFFIN: Soon, her strength was getting noticed. BLAINE DULIN: One day, she — I think she was picking up 220 pounds when she was 68. Somebody mentioned, does she compete or whatever? And I looked it up. And the world record was, I believe, 232. And I thought, well, why not? If you want to, why not give it a go? JULIA GRIFFIN: Expectations and preconceptions were broken at that first competition. LINDA LEIGHTLEY: There was another gal from the gym there. And she said: “Don’t worry about it. Whatever you do, it’s a success because you are here for the first time. Don’t worry about it if you fail. And I looked at her and I said, “I don’t have any intention of failing. BLAINE DULIN: She set a world record then, and has set at least one every other meet since. JULIA GRIFFIN: The key to Leightley’s sustained success, Dulin says, is making sure each lift is done correctly and safely. BLAINE DULIN: I hate to yell at somebody’s grandmother, but I have yelled at somebody’s grandmother for picking up weight improperly, because, if she gets hurt, we’re done for months, maybe indefinitely. So I go out of my way to try to make sure she does everything right. JULIA GRIFFIN: At most events, Leightley is often the only person her age, or even close to it. That, says her daughters Colleen and Mary Beth, is what crowds find so inspiring. COLLEEN WOOD, Daughter: To see how all these young 20-, 30-something-year-olds were cheering for my mom, who is in her 70s, that was really neat. MARY BETH HAZELGROVE, Daughter: We always say she’s the strongest woman that we know, and it’s literally and figuratively. JULIA GRIFFIN: For her part, Leightley is just glad to show that age is no restriction when it comes to physical fitness. LINDA LEIGHTLEY: Some of the younger lifters, female lifters come over, and they say, you are role model to us. This is the goal we’d like to have as we get a little bit older. That’s really an amazing compliment. JULIA GRIFFIN: A compliment that might just top her long list of accomplishments. For the PBS NewsHour, I’m Julia Griffin in Fairfax, Virginia. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: I love that her name is Leightley. What an amazing woman. The post How this 72-year-old weightlifter is lifting expectations appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
Officials in Puerto Rico are warning residents to prepare for catastrophic winds and floods as Hurricane Maria bears down on the island. The storm has already devastated the island of Dominica, where the governor describes the damage as “mind-boggling. Meteorologist Jeff Huffman (@HuffmanHeadsUp) of the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network gives Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson the latest on Maria. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Another dangerous hurricane is barreling toward Puerto Rico on the heels of Hurricane Irma. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm, could hit the island between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Here & Now‘s Robin Young checks in on storm preparations with reporter Miguel Santiago (@Johstean) of Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, a public radio station there. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Kev Hart presents how NOT to be a player starring (dialogue about) Kevin hart and his relationship shenanigans. Episode 100 crept up on us so we didn't make a big fuss about it, so 101 gone be the beginning of amazing things!!! Conversation Con Artists dive into dialogue about Looting, Makeup, and relationships. Come Con the conversation with us!!! Website: www.conversationconartists.com Twitter: @Red_Calamity @Mister_OnPoint @ConvoConArtists Facebook: Conversation Con Artists Help #ConTheConvo!
As New Jersey gears up for the gubernatorial election, Nancy Solomon, managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio, talks about a collaborative reporting project called, 'Voting Block,' where she and other reporters gather neighbors to talk politics. "Sometimes, there's a sort of disconnect between what people think is a policy versus how they respect people individually. Over time, that seems to get better," said Solomon.
The US president Donald Trump has said the United Nations could become stronger if all worked together. Also: Maria an 'extremely dangerous' hurricane and cyclist breaks around the world record.
Stay Strong, Remain The Same, And Wait. Today so much is going on and people have changed, thinking it is for the better. If we open our eyes we will see it is not for better but for worst. When I look at those who has come out of college, the police, and the world in general. All sales generate a lie to get you to buy. Customer service is a joke and a lie. Lies lead the world today and we accept the standard of lies. Tricks, lies, and power of words. The way the meaning of words have changed is sad. Making sentences shorter by removing important words which makes a sentence true. Words like very, really. If we want to survive the world we must look to the hills at all times and keep our eyes on God. Seek his face and turn from our wicked ways. We have some wicked ways because we have accepted the ways of the word. Afraid to speak out against wrong, afraid to say what God word says.
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The 1987 financial crash is considered to be the worst day on Wall Street. In her book, A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History, Diana Henriques looks at how "Black Monday" was really seven years in the making. She writes that this was due to missed opportunities, market delusions and destructive actions that stretched from the “silver crisis of 1980 to turf battles in Washington.
Devastating hurricane has powered back to category Five strength after pounding Caribbean island of Dominica. Also, Aung San Suu Kyi speaks out on the Rohingya crisis, millions of Yemenis face famine and cholera, remembering 'the man who saved the world', and what's the secret of happiness ?
Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine and author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2006) and As If: Idealization and Ideals (Harvard University Press, 2017), answers listeners' ethical conundrums and philosophizes on today's news. "It alarms me when people don't recognize what I think is the most important theoretical fact of identity, which is that they belong to all of us," said Appiah.Â
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Russian media have a lot to say about the U.S. and they're saying it right where Americans can hear it. Critics — including the FBI — say the cable network RT America and the radio network Sputnik are mouthpieces for the Kremlin. The networks say they're unfairly targeted by naysayers, compounded by concerns over Russian interference in the 2016 election. To discuss it we're joined by Jim Rutenberg, media columnist for The New York Times and author of its recent magazine cover story "RT, Sputnik and Russia's New Theory of War," Garland Nixon, co-host of the show "Fault Lines" on Sputnik Radio, Alexey Kuznetsov, deputy head of news at RT International, Kimberly Marten, a professor at Barnard College and Columbia University specializing in Russia and international relations and Andrew Feinberg, former White House correspondent for Sputnik International.
President Trump gives his first address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. NPR’s Michele Kelemen (@michelekelemen) joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to discuss the speech and how it’s being received. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
For the first time since Hurricane Irma, people who live in the lower islands of the Florida Keys are returning home. For many, that means arriving at a home to no power and no running water. And for some who live in Marathon, Summerland and Big Pine Key — islands hard-hit by Irma — found their homes no longer livable. When Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key last week, it carried winds of 130 miles per hour. For islands like Marathon Key on the "dirty" — more powerful — side of the storm, the storm surge was even more damaging than the winds. When Scott Collins and his family returned home to the southern edge of Marathon Key, they found their home — with its million-dollar view just steps away from the turquoise blue southern Atlantic — devastated. He, his wife and two daughters evacuated to Orlando before Irma struck. The aluminum hurricane shutters covering the house's doors and windows facing the ocean had been crushed and peeled away by the powerful storm surge. "The back wall gave out into the Florida room here," Collins says. All the family's furniture, household items, even the children's toys are against the walls, mixed with seaweed. "Everything was jammed into the front of the house in just one giant pile." Even a granite countertop from the kitchen was washed into another room by the storm surge. Now, Collins says, it's too heavy for him to move. Collins works as a fishing guide, specializing in fly fishing for tarpon and bonefish. He took his boat with him when he evacuated but he lost a lot of fishing gear in the storm. "All this fishing stuff, it doesn't bother me," he says. "It's more painful when I see my kids' stuff and personal items that have just been soaked and ruined. That gets to me more." They don't think they've been looted. Perhaps a spray-painted sign across their front door reading "Looters Will Be Shot" helped. Although, Collins adds, there's not really anything to take, unless you really dig in the muck. Several family members have come down to help, and now that cell service is back, those who aren't here have been "blowing up" their phones with concern. Collin's brother-in-law, Josh, is here, helping mom Gayzel through the painful task of trying to salvage her 9-year-old daughter Addison's room. Amid the destruction in the room, the white letters that spell her name still hang with clean pink ribbon on the wall. Collins says they plan to spend the foreseeable future sorting through the mixture of debris and belongings by hand — clearing what they can — and hoping to stave off the inevitable corrosion from the items' extended "bath" in salt water. Most of Collins neighbors also have damage — though only a few have returned to inspect. Laura Welliver, who lives next door, is in a good mood as she walks us through her house. She points out dead, embattled flowers in a vase on the kitchen counter — they were freshly cut when she evacuated last week, and despite their color — they seem to be the most intact thing in the room. On Facebook, she posted photos of the damage with the caption: "This is the new design of our home. Our free flowing kitchen, our open air living room. Fully furnished with seaweed." "I can make jokes," she says, "because I've already had my good, long cry." Local and state officials are encouraging residents not to return to the Keys until the infrastructure and services are ready for them. Florida Gov. Rick Scott says at least 10,000 Keys residents are now homeless. But over the weekend, Monroe County gave residents in the lower keys, including Marathon, the OK to come back. As of today, checkpoints to enter the Keys have been shut down, but officials are still asking vacationers and visitors to stay away. On Marathon Key is without running water, sewer or power in many areas. But businesses, like the Home Depot, Publix supermarket and some restaurants have reopened. At Brutus Seafood, manager Elise Mucha opened as soon as residents were allowed back. It was an unusual day she said. There were no tourists, only locals, but she was doing a brisk business selling burgers and hogfish sandwiches. "It's been interesting. We have no computer or credit card," she said. "But we're making it work." Just across the bridge from Marathon, at the Sunshine Key RV Resort, the scene is less upbeat. Trailers are upended, many on their sides with windows and walls blown out. On Monday, the park was deserted except for one resident, Jandi Perez, who was working with friends on his trailer. He showed us the damage — a broken window, and the trailer had moved a few inches over on its blocks. He says he's planning on staying. But throughout the lower Keys, mobile home parks like this one took severe damage. As we drive the Overseas Highway — the main road down the Keys — piles of debris line the roadside — downed trees, patio furniture, freezers, ice machines, even jet skis covered in seaweed, carried over land when the surge washed over the island. Cleaning up the mess comes first, then replacing the signs and gas station canopies torn apart by the high winds. But rebuilding Marathon and other hard-hit areas in the Keys will take longer. While older, one-story homes took a lot of damage from the storm, most two-story concrete block houses constructed more recently were relatively unscathed — a testament to the updated Keys building code, one of the strictest in the nation. Scott Collins had plans before the hurricane to build one of those houses — just a few miles from the property devastated by Irma. As a fishing guide, he says his livelihood is here. He has no plans on leaving. But he knows from past storms, many who work in the Keys' service economy may have little choice now but to go elsewhere. After the hurricane, many in the Keys now are asking whether rebuilt homes in communities like Marathon will be affordable to the people who work here. "They may not want to [leave] but they're not going to be able to stay here," Collins says. "Whatever they used to do before in the service industry, it's closed and they don't know when it will reopen. They may not have a place to live. They just can't recover. They've got to pull up and leave town." Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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Apple is set to launch its new mobile operating system, iOS 11, on Tuesday, just days before customers will be able to take home the new iPhone 8. But most of the speculation is about the new top-tier iPhone X, which will start at $999. The phone will not begin shipping until November, and even then, analysts are expecting shortages. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Dan Frommer (@fromedome), editor in chief of Recode, about skepticism over the iPhone X and what the release says about Apple’s business strategy. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioWILLIAM BRANGHAM: And it’s the beginning of the week, and so we are joined now by our regular Politics Monday duo, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR. Welcome to you both. AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: Thank you. TAMARA KEITH, NPR: Thank you. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Before we get to Alabama and policy and all that stuff, let’s talk about Sean Spicer and his little cameo last night on the Emmys. For those who didn’t see it, he comes out, and it seems like he’s trying to poke fun at his first day of the job, President Trump’s inauguration. He comes out and, all evidence notwithstanding, he says that president had the biggest audience ever in the entire history of the universe. And then that was his declaration. And he pointed his finger at the journalists and told them, report this. Last night, during the Emmys, Stephen Colbert is wondering about the size of his audience. And out comes Sean Spicer. Let’s take a look at that. (LAUGHTER) (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) SEAN SPICER, Former White House Press Secretary: This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period, both in person and around the world. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: What do you make of that? AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: You know, this is life imitating art. Right? He was actually channeling Melissa McCarthy, who you see there, who was making fun of him in her “Saturday Night Live skit. Look, this, to me, is a sign about where we are more broadly as a culture, which is, there is no such thing as having bad publicity or notoriety. You can always cash in on it. And it’s very short-lived. So, the name Sean Spicer is one that most people know today. It’s hard to know that it’s going to be the same a year from now. So, take it while you can get it. Take it to the bank. A lot of other Trump supporters, his former campaign manager, for example, got fired, and then ended up as a CNN commentator, is a lobbyist now. So, people trying to use their cache while they can here in Washington. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Tam, what do you think about this? Is this us not being able to take a joke? Or is this us, as many people have argued, that we’re being encouraged to chuckle at the idea that it’s just fine for the press secretary to lie to the American people? TAMARA KEITH: Well, this is Sean Spicer’s rehabilitation tour, his image rehabilitation tour. He also went on the Jimmy Kimmel show, and then today, in an interview with The New York Times, said that he regretted that press conference where he came out and told reporters, report the facts that were not the facts. They were alternate facts. And that was sort of the original sin of his entire time as press secretary. He came out and said something that was unverifiably untrue. And it led to further questions about whether what he said was true, whether what was said from the podium in the White House press Briefing Room, which has typically had some connection to reality, whether that could be trusted from this administration. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Some connection to reality. I love that. OK, let’s talk about the runoff next Tuesday in Alabama, very big Senate runoff race. AMY WALTER: Right. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Roy Moore and Luther Strange. What is at stake in that particular race? AMY WALTER: Well, these are two Republicans that are challenging each other. And what’s interesting here is, it is the choice between which Alabamans are going to like more. Or their choice is between loving Trump more or whether they dislike Mitch McConnell more. That is what they get a choice between. Roy Moore is the outsider. He is a former state Supreme Court judge. He has been kicked off the bench twice now, but he’s running as the anti-establishment, anti-Washington firebrand. Luther Strange is in a Strange position, which is, he’s been endorsed both by Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is coming down on Saturday to campaign for him. But he also has the support of Mitch McConnell and the leadership. So, really, what we’re looking for here is, how strong is the Trump connection? Can support from Trump, the president, coming down, giving outward, in this case a rally, outward support, enough support to overcome what voters’ reticence, especially in a place like Alabama, for the establishment — Roy Moore, polling has shown him ahead, some by bigger margins, some by smaller. So, Luther Strange, who is the incumbent right now — he was… WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The interim. AMY WALTER: … the interim here, replacing Jeff Sessions, starts off as the underdog. The real question for Republicans, what really is at stake, two things. One, if Roy Moore wins and comes to the United States Senate, the fear from Republican establishment people like Mitch McConnell is, he’s another rogue agent. They have very few votes that they can lose. They only have a 52-seat majority. They can’t afford somebody else who goes off on his own tangent. And the second is, it may encourage, if he succeeds, it may encourage other candidates to challenge sitting Republican incumbents. That’s not something they want to deal with. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: So, Tam, the president can read the polls. He must know, even if he prefers Strange, that he might be backing the guy who ends up losing. Like, why is the president — why is he willing to risk capital on this? TAMARA KEITH: I haven’t quite figure that out, to be perfectly honest. It’s a big question. And the other thing is, President Trump is doing what Mitch McConnell wanted him to do, which is endorsing Strange and working for Strange. But the flame keepers of President Trump’s, you know, agenda, the Steve Bannons, the Sean Hannitys, they have all endorsed Moore. And so it’s this really bizarre fight for, you know, who is the really — the true Trump candidate, the guy who Trump endorsed or the guy that all of Trump’s allies endorsed? And I don’t know how this is going to turn out and what it will mean for President Trump’s political capital. The interesting thing is, in this case, he’s for the incumbent, whereas, in some other states, he’s talking about wanting to primary the incumbent Republican. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Right. AMY WALTER: Yes. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Right. Let’s talk about health care quickly. The GOP, it seems like, are taking one last stab at putting the dagger in the Affordable Care Act with the Graham-Cassidy bill. Why are they pushing for this? AMY WALTER: It’s about a deadline. That’s usually what gets people motivated in Washington, is, they look and they see, we only have a certain amount of time. In this case, September 30 is the last day that Republicans can pass a health care bill with just 50 votes under this reconciliation deal. After that, they have got to get 60 votes. So this is really the time to be able to do this. Talking to folks who cover this today, there is a great deal of skepticism that this is going to happen. It’s pretty clear that the folks that held out on the first version, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul, are not committed to this. Rand Paul has already come out publicly and said he’s not for it. So, still, I wouldn’t say it is impossible, but it’s — the odds are longer. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Last to you, Tam. On the Democratic side, you have seen Bernie Sanders has been pushing his Medicare-for-all plan. We just saw Hillary Clinton express some skepticism about that, sort of implying that it wasn’t that realistic. But yet a lot of Democrats, including many who are thought of as 2020 contenders for the presidency, are signing onto this. So, why are they risking capital on something that may never go anywhere? TAMARA KEITH: Well, and Bernie Sanders says this bill is not going anywhere. They, I think, see this as a way to send a signal, to say that they care about health care. And they’re not talking about what’s practical and pragmatic. They aren’t at that stage yet. It’s — 2020 is a long way off. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Tamara Keith, Amy Walter, thank you very much. AMY WALTER: You’re welcome. TAMARA KEITH: You’re welcome. The post What’s at stake for Republicans in Alabama’s runoff election appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market fell 22.6 percent, the largest single-day loss in Wall Street history. Though the day became known as “Black Monday,” many of the details of what happened have been lost to history. New York Times financial reporter Diana Henriques (@dianabhenriques) examines what led up to Black Monday and what lessons can be learned from it in “A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day In Wall Street History.” She joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to talk about the book. Book Excerpt: ‘A First-Class Catastrophe’ By Diana Henriques He was a towering six foot seven, his round, balding head perpetually wreathed in cigar smoke. Paul A. Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve System, was formidable even when he was cheerful. On Wednesday afternoon, March 26, 1980, he was furious. Volcker, in office for barely seven months, had been pulled out of a meeting by a frantic message from Harry Jacobs, the chairman of Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, the second-largest brokerage firm on Wall Street. The Fed had almost no authority over brokerage firms, but Jacobs said he thought “it was in the national interest” that he alert Volcker to a crisis in the silver market—a market over which the Fed also had virtually no authority. Jacobs’s news was alarming. Silver prices were plummeting, and two of the firm’s biggest customers, a pair of billionaire brothers in Texas named William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt, had told him the previous evening that they could not cover a $100 million debit in their Bache accounts, which they had used to amass millions of ounces of actual silver and paper claims on millions more. If silver prices fell further and the Hunts did indeed default on their debt to the firm, the silver they had pledged as collateral was no longer worth enough to cover their obligations. Bache was confronting a ruinous loss, possibly a threat to its financial survival. Jacobs suspected the Hunts also owed money to other major banks and Wall Street firms and may well have pledged more of their silver hoard as collateral. Volcker immediately wanted to know which banks had made loans to the Hunts. He didn’t regulate Wall Street brokers or silver speculators, but he emphatically did regulate much of the nation’s banking system. There, at least, his authority to act was clear. Indeed, Volcker had been responding to fire alarms in the banking system for weeks, as banks and savings and loans struggled with rising interest rates—themselves a consequence of Volcker’s attack on the raging inflation that had sapped the economy for nearly a decade. Confidence in America’s banks was as fragile as blown glass, and the last thing Volcker needed was a “bolt from the blue” like this. Yet, here was the head of Wall Street’s number-two firm warning him that some big banks were financing what sounded like wildly speculative silver trading by a couple of Texas plutocrats. Within minutes, Volcker had reached out to Harold Williams, the urbane and seasoned chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the primary U.S. government regulator of Bache and its fellow brokerage firms. Williams was at a conference in Colonial Williamsburg; he ducked into a side room, spoke with Volcker about Bache, and then phoned to tell his staffers to check immediately on the rest of Wall Street’s exposure to the silver speculators. Williams then hurried back to Washington. A senior Treasury Department official and the comptroller of the currency (another bank regulator) were also alerted to the potential crisis. Both headed for the Fed’s headquarters on Constitution Avenue. Together, perhaps they could cover all the financial corners of this unfamiliar crisis. To do that, the group needed a regulator with some authority over the silver markets. Volcker called the office of James M. Stone, who had been tapped less than a year earlier by President Jimmy Carter to be the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a young federal agency that regulated the market where most of this silver speculation had gone on. At age thirty-two, Jim Stone—a cousin of the notable filmmaker Oliver Stone—had already studied at the London School of Economics and earned a doctorate in economics from Harvard. His doctoral thesis had been published as a prescient book predicting how computers would revolutionize Wall Street trading, first by doing the paperwork but ultimately by sweeping away the traditional stock exchanges entirely. Stone was a slight, brilliant, and determined young man, but his view that regulation played a positive role in the markets made him deeply unpopular in the industry he regulated and put him at odds with his more laissez-faire CFTC colleagues. One grumpy board member at a leading Chicago commodity exchange privately dismissed him as a “little twerp.” Almost everyone in political circles (except Volcker, apparently) knew that young Dr. Stone had become so isolated at the CFTC that he could barely get support for approving the minutes of the last meeting. When Volcker got Stone on the phone, his question was similar to the one he had asked Harold Williams at the SEC: how big a stake did the Hunt brothers have in his market? “I can’t tell you that. It’s confidential,” Stone said. The politely delivered answer stopped Volcker cold; he was momentarily speechless. Then he let loose. Volcker conceded later that he “did not react very well” to Stone’s refusal to share the vital information, even after the CFTC chairman explained that a law passed in 1978 barred his agency from revealing customer trading positions, even to other regulators. Stone simply did not have the authority to comply with the Fed chairman’s request. Stone, like Volcker, instantly saw that the silver crisis was a danger to the financial system because of the hidden web of loans that linked the banks and the brokerage firms to the Hunts and to one another. He promptly headed for Volcker’s office. Sometime later, the SEC’s Harold Williams arrived. Aides shuttled in and out, working the telephones, checking silver prices, and pressing bankers and brokerage finance officers for straight answers. By 6 p.m., as twilight filled the deep, high windows of Volcker’s office, the ad hoc group had finally established that at least a half-dozen major Wall Street firms, including Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber, had set up trading accounts for the Hunts and that a number of major banks had been lending money to those firms, or directly to the Hunts, since at least the previous summer, transactions secured by a growing pile of rapidly depreciating silver. Eight months earlier, on August 1, 1979, silver was trading below $10 an ounce. Prices rose through Labor Day, past Thanksgiving, and into the Christmas holidays. At $20 an ounce, silver had broken out of its traditional ratio to gold. At $30 an ounce, the sky-high price prompted newlyweds to sell their sterling flatware before burglars could steal it. Printers and film manufacturers, which used silver as a raw material, started laying off workers and feared bankruptcy. Through it all, the Hunts kept buying, largely with borrowed money. Then, on January 17, 1980, silver prices paused at $50 an ounce and started to slide. At that point, the Hunts’ hoard was worth $6.6 billion. After that date, prices dropped sharply; they had fallen to $10.80 on Tuesday, March 25, the day before Harry Jacobs at Bache called Volcker. At that price, the Hunts owed far more than their silver would fetch in the cash market, and their lenders were pressing for more collateral of some kind. It was on that Tuesday evening that the brothers told Jacobs they were unable to pay anything more. The next day, they shared the same unwelcome news with their other brokers. Crisis had arrived, and panic might quickly follow if a big bank or brokerage firm failed as a result of the Hunts’ default. That’s where Paul Volcker stepped into the story. After their Wednesday war room conference, held together more by personality and mutual respect than by any clear lines of authority, Volcker and his fellow regulators sweated out Thursday’s trading day. Stone, in defiance of the CFTC’s legislative restrictions, had finally given his fellow regulators an estimate of how much money the Hunts owed in his market: $800 million. That figure, which turned out to be an understatement, was so staggering it prompted the shocked bank regulators immediately to order examiners to visit various vaults to be sure that the Hunt brothers hadn’t pledged the same silver to multiple lenders. By Thursday, the rest of Wall Street had gotten wind of the silver crisis, and the stock market had a wild day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by as much 3.5 percent before stabilizing, as traders reacted to rumors that the Hunts and some of their creditors were dumping stocks to raise desperately needed cash. Of course, it is true that every share of stock that is sold is also bought—by someone, at some price. When far more people want to sell than to buy, prices have to drop sharply before buyers will bid for even a few shares. The term heavy selling, then, means that shares can be sold only at increasingly lower prices—not that everyone is selling and no one is buying. With that caveat, “heavy selling” is what happened as the stock market reacted to fears of a default by the Hunt brothers. One Wall Street veteran said that Thursday’s trading reminded him of the frenzied response to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. A Treasury official called the leadership at the New York Stock Exchange several times that day to assess how it was faring in the storm. The fear in Washington and on Wall Street was that the Hunts’ failure to pay their creditors would mean that those creditors would default on their own debts, spreading the contagion. Infusions of cash by the owners of the most vulnerable silver trading houses prevented an immediate disaster, but t
President Trump will press his case for reform of the United Nations when he makes his first address at its headquarters in New York. In December last year, Donald Trump tweeted that the UN was 'just a club for people' to 'have a good time' and soon after said it caused problems rather than solving them. Also in the programme; how North Korea's nuclear ambitions are impacting on Japan's commitment to its pacifist constitution and; Nobel prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk, on myths, identity and the complex struggle for meaning, at the heart of modern day Turkey. Photo: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley smiles while US President Donald Trump speaks before a working lunch with UN Security Council member nations, April 2017. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.
Though ISIS has taken a beating over the last year, the Syria-based terrorist group is still a major threat. They showed that on August 14, when three suicide attacks killed at least 60 people in southern Iraq. Find out more.
Rapper Gucci Mane joins us to discuss his memoir, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. Born in rural Bessemer, Alabama, Radric Delantic Davis became Gucci Mane in East Atlanta. He recalls his roots in Alabama, the trap house and the studio where he found his voice, and reflects on his career. Gucci Mane will appear on Sept. 19 at 11:30 a.m. at Barnes & Noble (555 Fifth Avenue between E. 45th and 46th St.). Photo-ops with Gucci Mane are possible.
Join Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney who fought corruption, financial fraud and violent crime, in a series about justice and fairness.
St. Martin, St. Thomas and Tortola’s ports have all been closed indefinitely to cruise liners. What does this mean for passengers as the winter season approaches? Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with cruise analyst Andrew Coggins, a management professor at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business, about this hurricane season’s impact on the industry. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Financial Intelligence hosted by Steven Hutchinson with guest Mr. Jahmel Kendall. Sept. 16, 2017 at 2PM-PST 4PM-CST 5PM-EST Call in : 347-539-2585 or listen online: www.blogtalkradio.com/gumboforthesoul About Our Guest: Mr. Jahmel Kendall is a Financial Analyst at World Financial Group (WFG). World Financial Group (WFG) is one of the few companies of its kind in the industry today: WFG is dedicated to serving the financial needs of individuals and families from all walks of life. ### TRIBE Family Channel™ is a Gumbo for the Soul International® family brand.
In 2007, journalist Deborah Campbell traveled to Damascus to report on the flow of Iraqi refugees into Syria following the fall of Saddam Hussein. While there, she hired an Iraqi refugee named Ahlam to help her as a fixer. But while working together, Ahlam was kidnapped in front of her eyes. In her recent book, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War, Campbell recounts her time reporting in Syria and her desperate attempt to find her fixer and friend. Deborah Campbell will appear in conversation with Peter Klein, Echo Wang Jing and Ism'ail Kushkush at the Columbia Journalism School's World Room (2950 Broadway) September 18 at 6 p.m.Â
How will UN respond to US President's address ? Also, controversy in Turkey over new school curriculum that emphasises religion, Eastern Caribbean braces itself for new hurricane, Nigerian teacher honoured by UN for educating children of Islamist fighters and government soldiers, and 'The Handmaid's Tale' wins top drama awards at the Emmys.
Hurricane Maria is spinning toward some of the same Caribbean islands that were destroyed earlier this month by Irma. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with meteorologist David Epstein (@growingwisdom), who is tracking the storm. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Women in Germany are paid 21 percent less than men — a higher pay gap than the European average of 16 percent.
The first Gallup national poll into religion was carried out in 1935. Ever since - but especially with the arrival of the internet - pollsters have fed a hungry media the latest statistics about belief in God and church attendance. How important is the polling industry to our understanding of religion? What can the polls not tell us? What is their relationship to academic social sciences? Professor Robert Wuthnow from Princeton University argues that polling on religion is a huge waste of money and creates rather than reflects categories of believers and non-believers. Also joining Ernie Rea to discuss the promise and pitfalls of religious polls are Professor David Voas from University College London, Katie Harrison from the Faith Unit at Comres and Andrew Graystone, founder and former director of the Church Media network. Producer: Rosie Dawson.
The US secretary of state backs up reports Mr Trump may soften his stance on the climate pact. Also: Sharif's wife 'wins key Pakistan poll' and the Emmys 2017.
Feet 2 Da Streets- Broken Chains Ministries hosted by Street Rev and First Lady Tapatha. Sept. 17, 2017 at 5PM-PST 7PM-CST 8PM-EST Call 347-539-5285 or listen online: www.blogtalkrado.com/gumboforthesoul
Today on Legal Docket, a look at the complexities of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Plus: Notable historic happenings from mid-September.
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Ed O'Keefe, Congressional reporter at The Washington Post, talks about the latest dealmaking between President Trump and Democratic leaders in Congress, plus other national political news of the day.
Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute; Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and resident scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; and E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discuss their new book A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported (St. Martin's Press, 2017) about why the election of Donald Trump is a symptom of U.S. democracy's dysfunction and citizen action is needed to repair it. Â
Two Bullseye classics this week. First up: Judy Greer. You've seen her as Kitty Sanchez in Arrested Development, as Cheryl Tunt on Archer, in Jurassic World, a bunch more. She's one of the most successful co-stars in Hollywood. It stands to reason. She's a gifted actress, she's funny, she's beautiful, but she still looks like a real human being you might know in real life. She talks with Jesse about her roles on screen, how she came to terms with being a co-star, and what it's like being recognized constantly on the street. Then, Ice-T, from 2012. He's been acting for over 25 years and he was a pioneer of West Coast hip-hop in the early 80s. His breakthrough on screen was in 1991's New Jack City, and he spent the last dozen years or so solving crimes on Law and Order: SVU. He's an MC and as the frontman of the metal band Body Count he's released more than a dozen albums in his 30 year music career. At the time, Ice had just directed Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, a documentary about hip-hop's origins. Ice talks with Jesse about the good old days of rap, where it's headed now, and how he ended up writing bars for the one and only Mr. T.
President Trump says the United Nations should be better value for money and have clearer objectives for its missions. Also on the programme: Why South Africa is taking the international accountancy firm KPMG to court; and the British man who cycled the world in 79 days. (Photo:US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and President Trump. Credit: Kevin Lamarque/ Reuters)
This is a story about how ex-Muslim Nabeel Qureshi passed away this week. Qureshi has impacted some of the greatest Christian leaders in our generation, even up to his dying breath. Tune in find out more.
After the Charlottesville protests, New York City has vowed to take a closer look at “all symbols of hate on city property. Harriet Senie, a member of the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments and Markers, a public art scholar and a professor of art history at the City College of New York, discusses the city’s many statues and the complicated issue of memorialization. "In this political climate, people are frustrated and feel a need to do something. Removing statues is a symbolic act, it will not eradicate racism," said Professor Senie.
President Trump has a love-hate relationship with the United Nations, but on Tuesday he’s hoping to win the organization’s support when he addresses the General Assembly. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with NPR’s Ron Elving (@NPRrelving) about Trump’s prospects there and the week ahead in politics. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Protesters led a silent march Monday morning in St. Louis, continuing the dayslong rallies after former police officer Jason Stockley, who is white, was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man. Protests began peacefully Sunday night, but later erupted into violence, resulting in more than 80 arrests. Here & Now‘s Robin Young gets the latest from St. Louis Public Radio’s Nancy Fowler (@NancyFowlerSTL). Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Last night’s Emmy Awards had several firsts: Lena Waithe became the first black woman to win for best writing for a comedy, for “Master of None Julia Louis-Dreyfus became the first actor to win six consecutive Emmys for playing the same character Donald Glover became the first African-American director to win the Emmy for directing a comedy, for “Atlanta (and Glover is the first actor to win an Emmy for directing a show he was in since 1977) Riz Ahmed became the first Asian man to win an Emmy for acting Hulu became the first streaming service to win the award for best drama series for “The Handmaid’s Tale And Sean Spicer was the first former White House Press Secretary to use the Emmys stage to joke about telling potential mistruths. We’ll get into the groundbreaking and cringeworthy moments from a historic awards show. GUESTS Eric Deggans, TV critic, NPR; @Deggans For more, visit http://the1a.org. © 2017 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio. Copyright 2017 WAMU 88.5. To see more, visit WAMU 88.5.
For some, there’s nothing quite like being onstage. But acting can feel inaccessible if you’re someone with a physical or intellectual disability. KJZZ’s Stina Sieg (@StinaSieg) visits a theater company in Scottsdale, Arizona, that welcomes everyone. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
The practice of holding an inquest used to be common, but it’s rare in the U.S. these days. And in several states, juries are still called to consider the facts when someone dies at the hands of the police. The inquest format is controversial — some say it promotes transparency and even healing. Others call it a farce. KUOW’s Amy Radil (@AmyRadil) reports. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Hurricane Maria is moving toward the eastern Caribbean’s Leeward Islands where it could make landfall later this week. Many islands are only now starting to rebuild and recover from Hurricane Irma. Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Hugh Riley, secretary general of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, to assess the impact of the hurricanes on tourism, which is vitally important to the region’s economy. More on the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s storm watch center Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
The stock market started strong this week, as experts eye the Federal Reserve’s September meeting that starts Tuesday. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with CBS News’ Jill Schlesinger (@jillonmoney), host of “Jill on Money and the podcast “Better Off, about what to expect from the Fed, what could happen with interest rates and whether the stock market will continue to soar. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
In Houston, some homeowners who have received payments from the National Flood Insurance Program after previous flood damage to their homes are wondering if it’s better to just take a buyout after Hurricane Harvey. Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Houston homeowner Dean Bixler. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
The United Nations General Assembly is meeting this week in New York. It’s the world’s largest diplomatic gathering, and it’s the first for President Trump, who has been critical of the U.N. NPR’s Michele Keleman (@michelekelemen) tells us what to expect from this year’s gathering. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
In the days, weeks and months after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, a 27-year-old man who lost his legs in the attack became the public face of the city’s resilience — the face of “Boston Strong. Jeff Bauman wrote about his experiences in the 2014 book “Stronger, and this week a film based on the book, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Bauman, is opening. Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Gyllenhaal and Bauman (@Jeffmbauman) about the film. Interview Highlights Gyllenhaal, on how he wanted to approach portraying Bauman Jake Gyllenhaal: “I mean, obviously I think it’s important when you initially from afar see the photograph, you’re struck by the event, and it was moving and angering and all of those things. But I think what a movie can do is get into the specifics of who a human being really is, and what I was interested in was being able to portray the pain that Jeff went through as best as we could, which inevitably led to I think the joy and the love between particularly Jeff and [Jeff’s then-girlfriend Erin Hurley] and his family. So it was just, it was important to get the specifics, and really understand who Jeff is as a person even before the event. We say, and I’ve said a few times across from him in interviews, there’s this idea I had: If all of his family and if Erin loved him for his legs, he’d be in big trouble (laughs). So I think that idea was essential in this movie, and I think getting the experience right, as well as the joy and hope. Bauman, on struggling to find his way after the bombing Jeff Bauman: “I mean, I sort of always kinda struggled with that my whole life, like with school and just kinda being frustrated with what I wanted to do in my life. And especially when I lost my legs I was like, ‘Man, now what?’ I was lost, I was really lost, ‘What am I gonna do?’ I was aimless, and had no idea what was ahead of me. You saw me a couple times throughout that journey. I was doing OK, but I was still, inside I was lost, just like I think anybody … I mean, anybody that goes through something traumatic is kinda like, ‘Whoa,’ like their life is flipped upside down. And then you have all these things to worry about and deal with, like the future. “Admittedly for me just playing someone like Jeff, there’s just a side of it that you just can’t help but feel fraudulent. You know you don’t carry with you that same history and that same strength. Jake Gyllenhaal Gyllenhaal, on Bauman’s experience of becoming a symbol and whether he’s faced similar situations as an actor JG: “Well, I mean, it’s an absurd comparison just given the circumstance that Jeff went through and, you know, being an actor. But I think there is a certain type of attention, and I think a certain … you’re in a way forced to perform, sometimes perform yourself and the idea people have of you. And I think that’s always an interesting dilemma of identity, particularly for someone like Jeff and the character I play of Jeff in the movie where, not only you’re trying to recalibrate your life and trying to figure out how to exist in the physical world without two legs — which changes your identity and all of the specifics of that, recalibrating your nervous system to try and figure out how to walk in these [Genium prosthetic legs] and all of those things. And then, all of a sudden people are giving you a whole new identity, which is, there’s a line in the movie and I think Jeff said it often, ‘I was just standing there,’ and now all of a sudden I’m, someone’s deeming me a hero. “And I think actually there are two reasons I realize this, why people feel that way: One is because [Jeff] did play a large role in identifying the bomber, and that’s part of it. But I think essentially the idea of being a symbol for people is something that I can see Jeff having grown into. Bauman, on his relationship with Carlos Arredondo JB: “He’s like the least selfish person in the world. He’s always worried about everything else, everybody else around him, and so is Mel, his wife, and they’re just so involved in everything. And I just, every time I kinda want to isolate, he’s there, and he’s always trying to pull me out. And he’s like, ‘Come on!’ He’s like, ‘Let’s go, you have to come,’ he’s like, ‘You have to come do this, you have to come do that.’ That’s just how he is. He is definitely a role model in my life right now, and he’s a very strong person. Gyllenhaal, on portraying Bauman in moments when people are sharing personal stories and looking to him for hope JG: “Admittedly for me just playing someone like Jeff, there’s just a side of it that you just can’t help but feel fraudulent. You know you don’t carry with you that same history and that same strength. So I kind of, I knew entering this character and entering this world — particularly trying to tell Jeff’s story — that I was probably gonna fail at getting close. So you enter, you start knowing you’re not gonna succeed somewhere, to get as close as he is and who he is. But it’s, yeah it’s uncomfortable, but I would say that knowing Jeff now and watching him in those moments, he’s uncomfortable with those moments. There’s a sort of, it’s hard to feel comfortable in a moment when anybody says that to you, because we are all complex characters. Gyllenhaal, on getting to see how love has helped Bauman get through JG: “Through all the complexities and idiosyncrasies of the characters in Jeff’s life — his family, all his relationships, himself, all the things that make him a complicated human being — what I noticed with everyone in the story, and everyone around him in real life, is that there is this unabashed, [unfailing] love, and you can see it in him. It’s why when he walks into a room or, I can see your guys’ relationship, that you really love him because he feels loved. And it’s what has gotten him through, I think. Even when trying to resist it, even when trying to say, ‘I don’t want it,’ it will not stop, it’s coming to him whenever. “My journey is just starting. Especially, now I’m walking better every month, every month I’m just walking more and more. Jeff Bauman Bauman, on the difficulty of going to events involving large crowds JB: “It was my biggest fear going into those events, it’s like, ‘What am I gonna do in these huge crowds?’ It’s just the crowd in general, because that’s where it happened, in a big crowd. So that does spark a lot of things for me, and even to this day I don’t do well in crowds at all, and I’m always kinda looking over my shoulder and on edge. Bauman, on whether he has flashbacks to the bombing, and working to overcome the mental trauma JB: “I don’t talk about it a lot, and I’m just starting to reach into my trauma with my therapist. I do, especially when I sleep, when I’m about to go to bed. And it happened a lot early on. It’s like when your head hits the pillow, you start getting thoughts about the day, and then all of a sudden for me in the three years it was just mainly thinking about that day, and thinking about different things and kind of rehearsing it. Then I got talking about it with public speaking, and really telling my story. And that really helps. I could sleep at night a little better and better, and as I carried on it got better. On what’s next JB: “My journey is just starting. Especially, now I’m walking better every month, every month I’m just walking more and more. We probably walked like five, four miles in Toronto [for the Toronto International Film Festival]… JG: “From the time I met him till now, it’s incredible. When we first met, we’d walk a few blocks and you’d be like, ‘I gotta…' JB: … I gotta go, I gotta go to bed. JG: “Now, it was like all day long. Up stairs, down stairs, strange floors, lots of different things. And he’s just, he’s going all day long. JB: “Jake, he likes to make fun of me. He’s like, ‘Yeah, a year ago you remember? You would be sucking wind up these stairs (laughs).' [Youtube] Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
The founding father of modern Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh. He led Vietnam's communist revolution against French colonial rule and then took on the United States. But it seems he long had an admiration for the US and repeatedly sought the country's help in the decades before the Vietnam War.
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Franklin Foer, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the New America Foundation, joins us to discuss his book World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. Tracing computer science from Descartes to today's Silicon Valley, Foer shows how the corporate ambitions of Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon are trampling longstanding liberal values, especially intellectual property and privacy. Franklin Foer will appear in conversation with his brother Jonathan Safran Foer at The 92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Ave. at 91st St.) on Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m.Â
Four decades ago, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published a book that changed science. In “The Selfish Gene, Dawkins argued that genes competing for survival not only drive evolution but also animal and human behavior. It was an abstract idea at first, but now scientists, including researchers at the Stowers Institute in Kansas City, are figuring out how selfish genes actually do their work. Alex Smith (@AlexSmithKCUR) of KCUR reports. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
With North Korean missiles zooming overhead, how does Japan prepare, defend and respond? Japan's tough challenges, military and diplomatic.
How 'Mayim, Mayim,' an Old World Jewish song, made its way into Japan is a mystery, but how it stayed is a geopolitical mess from the 20th century.
President Donald Trump makes his debut at the United Nations General Assembly this week. Thousands of world leaders, diplomats and advocates will debate issues ranging from North Korea's nuclear threat to the Paris climate accord.
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioMEGAN THOMPSON: This summer, when President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 Paris climate accord — a voluntary pact to cut emissions of gases that cause global warming — some opposition came from what is perhaps a surprising place: big business. In response, hundreds of large U.S. companies publicly pledged to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and increase energy efficiency. In tonight’s signature segment, NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Stephanie Sy reports on some big companies leading the way. This story is part of our ongoing series “Peril and Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change. STEPHANIE SY: With sprawling supercenters and close to twelve thousand stores worldwide, Wal-Mart, may be best known for low prices that local stores can’t match. Now, the planet’s number one company, by revenue, wants to be known as a leader in the fight against climate change. KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN, CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER, WAL-MART: At Wal-Mart, Sustainability really is core to our mission. STEPHANIE SY: Kathleen McLaughlin is Wal-Mart’s Chief Sustainability Officer, she’s charged with selling Wal-Mart’s climate vision to shareholders. KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN: It’s critical for business. It’s important for customers and for communities. We’re seeing effects already in things like supply security of different food commodities. STEPHANIE SY: Wal-Mart’s response to climate change began more than a decade ago. In 2005, then CEO Lee Scott pledged to curb Wal-Mart’s emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which cause the atmosphere to trap heat and warm the earth. Scott started moving the company toward clean power sources like wind and solar, with a goal of eventually getting 100 percent of its energy from renewables. KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN: It was a realization about capability and about scale and about how we can use that for good. Wal-Mart has unique assets as a retailer, just given the reach that we have across categories, the reach we have across countries and across suppliers, and the recognition that we could bring those capabilities to bear on the most pressing social and environmental issues that our customers face in ways that are really relevant for business.. STEPHANIE SY: Wal-Mart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, began by improving the fuel efficiency of its vast fleet of trucks that deliver goods to its stores. ERIC BENGE, WAL-MART: So Mike, when you’re ready, we’ll crank it up… STEPHANIE SY: Using a simulator, Wal-Mart retrains its truck drivers on gear-shifting to increase their fuel savings. Operators can have up to a 30 percent impact on fuel efficiency based on how they drive, and their job performance is judged accordingly. The company says, improved driving and upgraded trucks have saved the retailer nearly $1 billion since 2005. MARK VANDERHELM, WAL-MART: Wal-Mart has been the driver of a lot of new technologies in the energy efficiency space. STEPHANIE SY: Mark Vanderhelm is Wal-Mart’s Vice President of Energy. Wal-Mart has saved energy and money in its store operations by demanding more efficient equipment from vendors that provide its lighting, refrigeration, and heating and cooling systems. In its push for more renewable energy, the company has installed solar panels on the rooftops of 364 Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs. That only about eight percent of all its stores in the U.S., but the panels make Wal-Mart the nation’s second biggest commercial generator of solar power. KATHLEEN McLAUGHLIN: The biggest challenge in the U.S. is making it economic. We would love to see more availability of renewable energy sources that is at price parity with other sources. STEPHANIE SY: In other words, Wal-Mart’s ambitious energy goals aim also to save money. So, in its home base of Arkansas, where a lack of state government incentives for renewables make conventional fossil fuel power cheaper, you won’t see any solar panels on the local Wal-Mart stores. While the company has pledged to be 100 percent powered by renewables, it hasn’t said when, and right now only 17 percent of Wal-Mart’s domestic power comes from renewable sources. To provide guidance in achieving its climate change goals, Wal-Mart has partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund, or EDF. Fred Krupp is the group’s president. Is Wal-Mart doing enough? FRED KRUPP, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: The scale of Wal-Mart is hard to wrap your head around. They have 220 million people shopping there every week. In the United States, they sell about a third of all the food that we buy at retail stores. They can always do more. But what they have shown so far is a serious commitment, and the journey is an ongoing one of improvement. STEPHANIE SY: Jenny Ahlen is an EDF supply chain specialist based in Bentonville, Arkansas. JENNY AHLEN, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: The things that we buy and consume and how they are made and used and disposed of have a huge impact on the planet. So grocery is contributing half of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. retail sector. And that’s due to both the volume, but also the high level of greenhouse gas impacts embedded in that food. STEPHANIE SY: And Wal-Mart is the largest grocer in the world. JENNY AHLEN: They are. STEPHANIE SY: So this is a hot spot. Wal-Mart’s mission has grown to not only reduce its own stores’ impact on climate change, but to compel its tens of thousands of suppliers to transform their practices. At Wal-Mart’s urging, EDF helped pork producer Smithfield to optimize fertilizer use on crops used to feed its pigs, reducing the amount of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide released into the atmosphere. The reductions by Smithfield and other suppliers contributed to Wal-Mart taking credit for meeting a goal, in 2015, of reducing emissions by 20 million metric tons, the equivalent of taking nearly four million cars off the road for a year. Wal-Mart’s newest initiative is called “Project Gigaton, which aims to persuade suppliers to remove 50 times more greenhouse gases — or one billion metric tons — by 2030, about the same amount of pollution as Germany emits in a year. Wal-Mart, known for squeezing suppliers to keep prices low, is putting a green squeeze on them now, though one that’s voluntary. FRED KRUPP: It sends a message to their 100,000 suppliers all around the world: If you want your products on our shelves, cut your pollution. STEPHANIE SY: Ninety percent of Wal-Mart’s overall greenhouse gas impact comes from its supply chain, and dozens of its major suppliers have already signed on to project gigaton. Wal-Mart hopes that encouraging its suppliers to cut emissions will have a multiplier effect. One of those participating suppliers was already forging its own path to sustainability. The candy maker Mars, Inc, best known for M&M’s and Snickers bars, has set an aggressive target of using “zero carbon in its operations by 2040, eliminating all greenhouse gas emissions. BARRY PARKIN, MARS, INC. CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY OFFICER: Field is actually 18 acres, so it’s pretty big… STEPHANIE SY: Barry Parkin, Mars’s Chief Sustainability Officer, showed us the vast solar farm in New Jersey the company built eight years ago. It now provides about five percent of the power used by the Mars chocolate factory in nearby Hackettstown, which churns out half of the M&M’s sold in the U.S.Parkin says the falling price of renewable energy technology, like solar, makes the investments pay off. BARRY PARKIN: We’ve done this at cost parity or better. In some cases, our costs are now lower as a result of using renewable energy. STEPHANIE SY:So we’re not going to see the price of M&M’s skyrocketing because Mars has made commitments to the environment? BARRY PARKIN: No, absolutely not. So this is not just good for the environment. It’s it’s good for Mars. It’s good for consumers, and it’s also good for the landowners that we’re working with. STEPHANIE SY: Mars has a long-term contract to buy the power produced by this massive wind farm in West Texas – enough to offset the electricity used in its entire U.S. operation. Parkin believes that global efforts to curb climate change will eventually lead to fossil fuels becoming more expensive. BARRY PARKIN: We believe there will at some point be a price on carbon. We’re thinking long term, we’re thinking that if we are ahead of the curve here and we’re reducing our carbon footprint in line with the science faster than our competitors, then we can have a competitive advantage. STEPHANIE SY: Food companies like Mars are also planning for disruptions to their agricultural supplies caused by climate change, including the cocoa for its chocolate. BARRY PARKIN: Seventy percent of the world’s cocoa comes from a small region in West Africa. And all of the climate models say that that region is going to become drier and that is not good for cocoa. So those millions of farmers there, all the predictions say is they’re going to start to struggle. STEPHANIE SY: This month, Mars announced it is investing a billion dollars over the next three years, in part, to help its suppliers reduce carbon emissions, including hundreds of thousands of small farmers around the world. Mars hopes the effort will help the company’s supply chain reduce emissions by 67 percent by 2050. The risks of climate change to business have now led half of the world’s 500 largest public companies to set sustainability goals. And a report released this April by several environmental researchers found energy efficiency projects saved these companies nearly $4 billion last year. In addition, after President Trump pulled the United States government out of the Paris Climate Accords, Wal-Mart and Mars were among the companies that signed a letter pledging to continue to meet their voluntary targets. But Wal-Mart’s growing business may be in conflict with its sustainability mission. Wal-Mart’s total retail square-footage has expanded by 43 percent in the pas
The biggest winners at last night’s Emmy Awards were Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale and HBO’s “Big Little Lies, both shows with strong female leads. It was also a big night for people of color, and politics were front and center throughout the evening. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) about the most memorable moments, from a surprise Sean Spicer appearance to a “9 to 5 reunion to historic wins for African and Asian Americans. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
Hamas, who govern the Gaza strip, have agreed to steps towards ending a long feud with their rivals Fatah who govern the West Bank. Also in the programme: talking about dementia to children and embedded with Russian troops in Syria. (Picture: A Palestinian man and his daughter walk past a graffiti reading in Arabic "Division" in Gaza City, on September 17, 2017. credit: AFP/Getty)
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In the Palestinian territories, Hamas - the faction that's ruled the Gaza Strip for the past decade - says it is willing to dissolve the body that oversees the territory and to allow a unity government to sit ahead of new elections. We get reaction from an Israeli MP and a senior Hamas official. Also in the programme - 60% of the Rohingya refugees crossing from Myanmar into Bangladesh are children. We also look ahead to this year's Emmy Awards in the American city of Los Angeles. (Photo: Palestinian sisters whose sons were supporters of the opposite sides - Fatah and Hamas, reconcile in Gaza City. Credit: SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are told to stay in camps; British police question an 18 year old man suspected of planting a bombing device on a train on Friday, and the koala that survived a 16 kilometres car journey.
Miami's largest hurricane shelter, run by the Red Cross, still houses nearly 1,000 people. Some have been there since before the storm but many are recent arrivals—people who tried to ride out the storm but are now dealing with an ongoing lack of power and mold infesting their homes. As of Saturday, 866 humans are staying in the Costco-sized warehouse- - Miami/Dade Fairgrounds shelter — packed with cots, overflowing bags of donated clothes and mountains of bottled water. The oldest is 105 years old. The youngest is 1 day old. Then there's the non-humans. We're talking pets. Eighteen dogs. Six birds. A monkey. And two cats who evacuated from the Keys. "Yeah, these are my boys. This is Angel and that's Rimsky," their owner says fondly. She's Athena –no last name—who was working as a life coach in Ramrod Key before the storm. Athena's set up something like a fortress around her cot using the cat cage and folding chairs draped with pink towels for privacy. And now, because she uses a cane, Athena's chatting with a disability activist who's been going around checking in on people with special needs. Running out of toilet paper "Toilet paper has been a huge thing," she says. "The day after the hurricane, we ran out of toilet paper and had none for 24 hours and it's been spotty and they've been trying but it's just little things." Toilet paper is a low tech little problem. Lack of wifi is a high tech one. Not having it makes filling out FEMA paperwork a total headache. The activist, Ernie Martinez, heads over to shelter manager Louise Vandewiele to amplify these concerns. She's more than willing to listen. She and Martinez have been in constant contact. Making sure there are nice, wide aisles for people in wheelchairs. Getting help for a blind person counting steps. Segregating people with allergies from the pet-friendly part of the shelter. Dealing with a deaf veteran with signs of PTSD. Vandewiele says she absolutely understands the toilet paper issue. "You know, with 1,000 people, which is what we'll have by the end of the day, we use up a lot of it," she says wryly, noting that the shelter tries to make sure everyone can hang onto their own individual roll. Vandewiele came from Tennessee to run this shelter for two weeks. She's a 57- year-old Red Cross veteran who started volunteering in her 20s during ice storms in her native Canada. She's a mother of 10 children, many of them adopted foster kids, with her husband, an emergency room physician. Vandewiele's shelter in Miami is consolidating as others shut down. But it's also taking in new people who've spent the past week in motels or hotels — but now they're out of money and they can't go to their uninhabitable homes. Or there are people like 24-year-old Tyler Gist. "I've been here since Monday," he says. "I came from a different shelter --Miami Central, they moved us all here." Robbed and tired but helping out Before Irma, Gist was living in a rescue mission. He'd just moved to Miami, and was robbed on his way here, he says, of $1800 in cash. Lanky and bearded, sporting a white T-shirt and a spider-web elbow tattoo, Gist spent the past week helping out at the shelter. He passed out water, assisted old people, built cots, but then he got bored. "Eight in the morning yesterday, I started –I was walking up and down the road even though it was exhausting hot," he says. "And I found a job within four hours." A job delivering sandwiches at the Jimmy Johns chain, but the guy who offered it said he needed a bike. "And well, I kind of lied to him and told him I had a bike," Gist said. But he went back to the shelter, determined to make this work. "Sometimes you got to bite your tongue and do things that you don't feel like is necessary," he said. "I don't like asking for stuff." Gist was near tears. But that's exactly what he did. Later that afternoon, when a family dropped off clothes and toys at the shelter, Gist approached them with a question. "If you know anyone who has a bike that they could donate it, it would be highly appreciated. I really need one for my job," he said quietly. Two hours later, the dad came back with a bike. To be clear, Gist has a bike now, but no lock and no helmet. He's not sure how he'll piece together what he has left after Irma. But like so many people at this shelter, he says having anything after the hurricane feels like a blessing. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.
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Somewhere in the Middle hosted by Michele Barard with guest Nina Brav. Sept. 15 2017 at 5PM-PST 7PM-CST 8PM-EST Call in: 347-539-5285 or listen online: www.blogtalkradio.com/gumboforthesoul About Our Guest: Nina Brav describes herself as a "Southerner stuck in the snow." Having graduated two years ago from Boston University, she lives and works in Boston as writer, blogger, and entrepreneur, as founder and CEO of A Nina Production. Nina’s writing centers around themes of love, healing, and magic. Last year, Nina co-authored and published her first book of poetry, Love and Other Monsters which, explores the search for love and how life experience impacts our perceptions of it from the perspectives of three women at different stages of life. Nina is currently working on her second poetry book entitled, "Pink Cake and Champagne, Musings on Hate and Healing," This second book delves deep into the emotions that come with ending a long relationship: the love that turns to hate, the lover turned villain, and the all-important work it takes to transform heartbreak into healing. ### TRIBE Family Channel™ is a Gumbo for the Soul International® family brand created by Beverly Black.
This week, Great Britain experienced its fifth terror attack of 2017. An improvised bomb exploded on a packed London train, injuring 29. Listen to find out more.
This week, we continue celebrating (and apologizing for) Car Talk's 30th Anniversary on NPR, with some of our all-time favorite "out there" calls. Our roster includes space shuttle astronaut John, whose government vehicle had a slight hesitation problem at 17,000 miles per hour; Gail, the Most Wanted Tollbooth fugitive at the Betsy Ross Bridge; Dave from Bemidji, MN, whose road trip from Alaska included using a campfire grill to fix his catalytic converter; Will, whose old dog Moses "blew beets"; and the saga of one of our heroes, lawn chair pilot Larry Walters. All this and more, this week on The Best of Car Talk's Field Guide to the North American Wacko.
The UN says that more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar's Rakhine state three weeks ago. Also in the programme: British police say they've made a significant arrest following Friday's attempted London underground bombing; and North Korea says its goal is to achieve "military equilibrium" with the United States. (Picture: Rohingya are seen in an informal settlement on September 15, 2017 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Credit: Allison Joyce/Getty Images)
This is story about how one brand-new Chick-fil-A responded with Christ's love in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Hear what Charisma News discovered in one downtown coffee shop.
Dave didn't drink today, and because of that he says "he never had it so good." He grew up in a steel mill town, with a family of non-alcoholics. He never drank as a child. Dave's first use of alcohol came when he was away at college, where an athlete friend took him to a bar. He remembers feeling so confident, and from that point on, he drank because alcohol could "give him something." He would keep drinking through college, becoming a schoolteacher. But alcohol did the very opposite; His marriage failed and found himself in trouble with the law. Click to Play
In this age of increased polarization, maybe our ideas about belonging need to be reexamined. Social scientist and storyteller Brené Brown argues in her new book "Braving The Wilderness" that "we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary." Brown, whose TED talk on the power of vulnerability has been viewed more than 30 million times, joins Joshua to explain why "believing in and belonging to ourselves is the only way back to each other."
Bangladesh plans to build huge camps for Rohingya refugees who have fled neighbouring Myanmar amid ongoing crackdown in Cox's Bazar. Also in the programme: London underground bombing arrest; and impact of a hit horror movie on clowns. (Photo: Rohingya children arrive by boat from Myanmar. Credit: Getty Images)
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Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un recently said his goal is to reach an “equilibrium of real force with the United States and dissuade talk of U.S. military action against his regime. And that he wants to finish his nuclear weapons program despite sanctions. Kim’s comment comes after North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile over northern Japan for the second time. North Korea’s state-run media released this video, which shows the missile launch along with these photos of Kim watching it. The North Korean threat — and China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea — underscore how Japan still relies on the U.S. military for protection, just as it has since the end of World War II. Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the U.S. will work with Japan to enhance its missile defenses, and the U.S. commitment to defend Japan remains, quote, “ironclad. In tonight’s Signature Segment, NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Amy Guttman reports from the Japanese island of Okinawa on how U.S. bases there are a cause of concern to many residents. MARK WAYCASTER: “And then, on April 1st at 0530 in the morning… AMY GUTTMAN: U.S. Marine Mark Waycaster leads tours of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa every week. MARK WAYCASTER: “We dropped 4-thousand 5-hundred tons of ordnance on that beach. AMY GUTTMAN: Okinawa was the bloodiest battle in the Pacific during World War II. Fourteen thousand Americans were killed, as were 150-thousand Japanese military and civilians. And U.S. troops never left. The American soldiers have been the cornerstone of the post-World War II pact to protect a demilitarized Japan. U.S. troops deployed from Okinawa to fight the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Soldiers came back for rest and relaxation. The troops also provide economic security. Nine thousand Okinawans work on the bases, and many more, at businesses supporting them. Emblems of the fused culture are all over the island. TOMOTERU TAMARI: In this area, there were more than 100 bars. AMY GUTTMAN: Tomoteru Tamari’s family owned a restaurant that thrived during the more lucrative years of the Vietnam War. TOMOTERU TAMARI: My father, he became so prosperous that all of us nine children were able to go to university, thanks to the U.S. base. AMY GUTTMAN: But those benefits are outweighed for most Okinawans by a feeling of endless military occupation. After Japan surrendered in World War II, Okinawa was kept under American military rule for more than two decades. Residents of the island only won the right to elect their own governor in 1968. Today, there are twenty-nine thousand troops on Okinawa, more than half of the 56-thousand U.S. troops still stationed in Japan. One of the U.S. military bases, Futenma Air Station sits in a dense urban area right in the middle of the island. LAWRENCE NICHOLSON: Marine Lieutenant General Lawrence Nicholson is the highest-ranking U.S. military officer on Okinawa. He says today’s global threats make the mission here as relevant as ever. We have China, North Korea, Russia and the violent extremism that is occurring today in Mindanao of the Philippines. The location here, a couple hundred miles south of Japan puts us centrally located to be able to to respond quickly. Very, very quickly to a Korean scenario from here to a defense of all of our allies. AMY GUTTMAN: Okinawa’s location within two hours flight time to the Korean Peninsula, three hours to Russia make it both vulnerable and valuable to the U.S. LAWRENCE NICHOLSON: Certainly, we’re concerned about the longer range missiles. Kim Jong Un has launched more missiles in his short time than his father and grandfather, combined. So the obsession with weaponizing and delivering nuclear weapons has caused us significant concern. AMY GUTTMAN: Japan shares the burden of the costs of U.S. deployment. It pays the U.S. $1.7 billion dollars a year for the protection, about a-third of the 5-and-half billion the military spends in the whole country. The Japanese government in Tokyo also sends Okinawa funds for hosting the Americans. Despite the government subsidies and spending by military personnel, the majority of Okinawans want the American troops to leave. One of the biggest complaints — nearly six thousand crimes committed by U.S. military personnel since 1972, according to police records. When three U.S. servicemen abducted and raped a twelve-year old girl in 1995, public outrage soared and propelled talks to reduce troop levels on the island. In 2014, the crime rate for the U.S military personnel on Okinawa reached a historic low. But last year residents were reminded of past brutalities when a U.S. military contractor raped and murdered a 20-year old woman. How do you explain these atrocities? LAWRENCE NICHOLSON: You can’t explain it. We were as shocked and horrified by the incident as anyone. The fact that it was an American civilian working on a base that had committed this was devastating. We have an obligation to be better. AMY GUTTMAN: That pledge is little solace for Kinjo Takemasa. His mother managed a bar near a base in the northern part of Okinawa. In 1974, she died when a U.S. Marine hit her in the head with a brick during a robbery. KINJO TAKEMASA: I used to think the U.S. Military was helping to revitalize our town. But it was an illusion, because I became a victim. AMY GUTTMAN: Six days a week, protesters gather outside this base to complain about the military presence, including the noise and the safety risks of U.S. aircraft flying above. V-22 Ospreys take off from Futenma Air Station every day. The controversial and accident-prone aircraft takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. They cruise over homes, hospitals, and schools. Practically next door, Professor Masa’aki Tomochi teaches international relations at the University of Ryukyu. How regularly do you hear planes taking off and landing? MASA’AKI TOMOCHI: Every day from the morning to the night time, actually. AMY GUTTMAN: Six months ago, one Osprey crashed in Okinawa. Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga is leading the fight to reduce the American military presence. TAKESHI ONAGA: We depend on security from U.S. Military bases in this country, but the Japanese Government, they are willing to locate all the bases in Okinawa. I can’t tolerate this over-concentration of U.S. bases. AMY GUTTMAN: Onaga calls it an over-concentration, because Okinawa represents less than one percent of Japan’s land. Yet, 64 percent of the Japanese land used for U.S. bases is on the island. Since his election three years ago, he’s tried to block construction in this picturesque, sparsely populated area in the northern part of the island called Henoko Bay, where a new base would replace Futenma Air Station. AMY GUTTMAN: So what do you see as the solution? TAKESHI ONAGA: I’d like all Japanese to shoulder the burden of hosting U.S. bases. When I speak with people coming from mainland Japan, I say, ‘why don’t you host U.S. military bases in your hometown?’ AMY GUTTMAN: The U.S. has agreed to reduce its presence in Okinawa by relocating nine thousand Marines to bases in Guam, Australia, Hawaii and other American states. But there’s no fixed timeline for that to happen. The military has returned twelve-thousand acres of land once used for bases and training to the Okinawan government with three-thousand more acres promised. Professor Tomochi sees more risks than rewards in relocating Futenma Air Station. You don’t see its strategic value? MASA’AKI TOMOCHI: If the U.S. and Japan think that their potential enemy is China, for example, if China launched missile to U.S. military bases in Japan, including Okinawa, you know, it’s useless. AMY GUTTMAN: So do you feel more safe or less safe with the military here? MASA’AKI TOMOCHI: Less safe. It means we became a target. AMY GUTTMAN: Most Okinawans oppose a new airfield in Henoko Bay, but construction has begun, and the Japanese government is footing the bill. Kinjo Takemasa has been among those protesting the project and its environmental impact. KINJO TAKEMASA: This is sacred ocean for me. A sanctuary. I became a protester, because the U.S. base destroyed nature. AMY GUTTMAN: Businessman Tomoteru Tamari, whose father owned that thriving restaurant, is among the minority of Okinawans who support the new airfield as do local officials, hoping it will revive the area’s fortunes. TOMOTERU TAMARI: Some residents who had moved out are starting to move back. There’s hope the population will increase and create a better environment for children, better education. AMY GUTTMAN: But Okinawa’s government says the island would be better off with more private development. It says this town, built on land reclaimed from the U.S. military and now home to an entertainment and shopping complex, has an economic impact 100 times greater than the base that was here before. Okinawans would like to replicate that success, turning more prime real estate used by the military into valuable destinations for commerce and tourism like this beach, where the U.S. Marines first landed in 1945. The post On Okinawa, locals want U.S. troops to leave appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
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Paleontologists are piecing together the bones of giant fish and ancient reptiles that inhabited the long-dried North American inland sea. Plus, great recyclers: dung and carrion beetles. And how anthropologists use genetic information and found artifacts to piece together how the first Americans populated the continent.
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A new opera about the nature of wilderness will be performed outside this weekend at the Lewis and Clark Law School Amphitheater. Two Yosemites: An Environmental Opera, is being produced by Opera Theater Oregon. Justin Ralls, Co-Artistic Director, and composer of Two Yosemites, joins us.
Biologists wait to assess the damage done to a delicate ecosystem by Irma. And in 13 years, the Cassini orbiter showed us lakes on Titan, geysers on Enceladus, and a new understanding of all things Saturn.